I'm having bad internet problems on my MBP Retina recently. Turning wireless off and on fixes it briefly. What do I do?
I'm getting issues (In Chrome and Safari) where I go to a page and just see the HTML but no pictures. Or a youtube video will not load sometimes I don't get CSS or Javascript but I do get HTML. If I turn off the wireless network I see broken picture images. However when I am at home plugged into my TB display it goes to Gig-E and stuff loads again, in a few minutes that will stop working and I turn wifi back on and it works for a few more minutes. After a while I get sick of it and do a PC thing and reboot. The reboot makes the computer function like a Mac for a few hours to a few days then we are turning wifi off and on again.
I've had this problem on all the networks I have tried. This problem never happened when I was on Lion and I don't think it happened on Mountain Lion until recently but not sure. I blamed Time Warner for the problem for a while. There are 2 other Mac Book Pros in the house and the late 2011 is having the problem but the recently purchased 2012 non-retina is not having the problem... yet.
I'm running 10.8,2 and patch everything I can as soon as it is ready. Having USB3 issues as well.
Sig,
Thanks for the advice. I finally tried a solution after doing nothing. LoL. What I did do was change the channel the router was on from 9 to 7. I think I've done something like this in the past when I had slow internet and that worked out well too. I thought that would help and so far so good. Not an interruption so far but we shall see. To the guy or girl who expressed that they had the same problem as me I would try changing the channel of your router like I did. I will monitor the situation and see if it totally solved my problem or not and keep this thread updated. Thanks people
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